wolf550e

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by wolf550e 6y ago
Yes, he is in charge of merging changes from ~200 subsystem git trees into the new release, every week. Every ~8 weeks they do a major version with big changes, and then they do weekly releases with bugfixes, and then they do a major versio
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by wolf550e 6y ago
> It writes out and syncs the accumulated WAL records at each transaction commit, unless the committed transaction touched only UNLOGGED or TEMP tables, or synchronous_commit is turned off. So wal is synced before commit returns, and if
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by wolf550e 6y ago
The default in MySQL and in postgresql is to fsync before commit and afaik that has always been the default.
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by wolf550e 6y ago
Why is sendmail even an option? And worse, a default? Why qmail? Is it really original qmail, or qmail with freebsd patches, or notqmail, or what? (In light of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23247196 ) Why not postfix?
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by wolf550e 6y ago
It deploys a battalion of marines in an amphibious landing, it does not itself move on land.
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by wolf550e 6y ago
The only surface ships the US has that are nuclear powered are the supercarriers. Nuclear ships are expensive.
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by wolf550e 6y ago
Why provide that antique gcc? Better to not provide gcc at all, and an ability to install a recent GCC at user's discretion, than to provide a 12 year old gcc in the base system. Why is their clang/llvm stale in a new release?
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by wolf550e 6y ago
What does the logic implemented using standard cell circuitry do in this design? I thought this is a "dumb" component, no calculations inside?
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by wolf550e 6y ago
Can you build a modern browser to run on PPC? Say, latest fully patched firefox? Because using the browser that comes with Ubuntu 16.04 is not an option, security wise.
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by wolf550e 6y ago
In my school, I was lied to by teachers instead of just saying "we will get to that later" or something. For example: Q. how much is 3 - 5? A. nothing because you cannot take 5 out of 3. Q. how much is 2 divided by 3? A. nothing b
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by wolf550e 6y ago
Best practice is Let's Encrypt 3 month certs and best practice is to only allow TLS cipher suites that provide PFS (which are the only ones allowed for HTTP/2 and the only ones present in TLS1.3), which mean that the private key f
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by wolf550e 7y ago
I believe C will continue to be used as lingua franca after no one uses it to write software, and we're decades from even that point. You need to know enough C to interface with the OS, and enough C to talk about memory layout, memory
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by wolf550e 7y ago
Sigint agencies hoard 0days and know they get "burned" by using them against a serious opponent that records traffic and can analyze and reverse engineer malware. If the 0day is useful against your own systems, you would hesitate
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by wolf550e 7y ago
But surely the private pilots training against US military pilots get to see the current tactics, and the private radars and electronic warfare pods get to record the current combat settings of US military radars and electronic warfare syst
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by wolf550e 7y ago
AMD has been beating Intel since Pentium 4 and until Conroe (1st gen Core), early this century.
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by wolf550e 7y ago
or redirect cat to /dev/null and see how fast that is
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Sony PS5 has hardware decompressor for Kraken format (part of Oodle from RAD)
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by wolf550e 7y ago
Physical property rights are suspended in times of crisis. Why not intellectual property rights? How is it ethical to let a debate about compensation, which can be had in the future, stop you from saving lives you can save, today? Especiall
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by wolf550e 7y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by wolf550e 7y ago
Have you looked at XXH64 from https://cyan4973.github.io/xxHash/ ? For denser hash table, you need Robin Hood hashing.
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by wolf550e 7y ago
I don't know about openssl's status on old / weak platforms. People who need AES without hardware AES instructions should be using BearSSL code or the rust code that has been reviewed by the author of BearSSL (see e.g. https
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by wolf550e 7y ago
Fast table based software AES implementations leak bits of the secret key in array offsets, so anything that can use the cache on the chip can get the key. A software implementation of AES that is secure against side channel attacks by usin
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by wolf550e 7y ago
ECDHE or DHE with TLSv1.2 is in practice not "sometimes" but "almost all the time". See https://www.ssllabs.com/ssl-pulse/ "Forward Secrecy" is not supported on 2.1% of sites.
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by wolf550e 7y ago
117 seconds specific impulse [1] is miserable. It is possible [2] to reach orbit with that, but not efficiently. 1 - http://www.astronautix.com/h/h2o2.html 2 - https://space.stackexchange.com/a/872
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by wolf550e 7y ago
If the heap is under 32GB, the JVM can use "compressed oops" with 4 byte "pointers" to 8 byte offsets inside the 32GB heap instead of 8 byte pointers. This makes everything more compact. Since Java doesn't have stru
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by wolf550e 7y ago
There are multiple ways to password protect zip files. A user usually won't be able to tell whether the way used by their software is secure or not. The old way is insecure. http://math.ucr.edu/~mike/zipattacks.pdf
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by wolf550e 7y ago
FYI, password protected zip is completely insecure. Use age, or magic wormhole.
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by wolf550e 7y ago
See https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/04/amazon-ec...
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by wolf550e 7y ago
Starfighter was shut down but you can Google it.
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by wolf550e 7y ago
This sounds like a PM was hiring a dev to implement a feature the PM was responsible for.

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